American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.
I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.
Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
No opposing quotes found.